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SUBMITTER: Obaldia N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4366603 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of infectious diseases 20141021 7
Identifying the source of resurgent parasites is paramount to a strategic, successful intervention for malaria elimination. Although the malaria incidence in Panama is low, a recent outbreak resulted in a 6-fold increase in reported cases. We hypothesized that parasites sampled from this epidemic might be related and exhibit a clonal population structure. We tested the genetic relatedness of parasites, using informative single-nucleotide polymorphisms and drug resistance loci. We found that para ...[more]